All Forum Posts by: Varaia Roshon

I do. I did open houses just about every weekend I could and got my first clients from that and when listings slowed down in our office I offered to do open houses for other agents outside the office that had vacant listings on the market for awhile. Cross your fingers. My buyers have been looking at houses for about 5 weeks and I'm supposed to be writing an offer on one they liked today or tomorrow. I also had friends that wanted me to do the transaction for them but they lived a few hours away so I referred them to another more local agent. Let me tell you it was REALLY really hard to give up a client and a future paycheck (especially when you've got nothing coming in) to another agent for just a small percentage of commission but it was the right thing to do.

@Khristian Guillory Thanks! I relocated to Washington 2 years ago and spent them as a stay at home mom and I would work part time gigs to make ends meet when I could. I found a small but growing real estate firm that was close to home that I really enjoy being a part of. I am a newer agent as well and began this January. I would not say my sphere started off very large as most of my educational contacts were left in Alaska and being a stay-at-home mom did not leave me well connected socially. What helped me the most I would say is sending 10 hand written letters of appreciation/gratitude to people in my past with a business card in case they needed my contact information. It helped me reconnect with people I had forgotten about who really cared about me and boosted my morale tremendously. I then made a monthly call schedule to repeatedly just check in with them without the guise of trying to sell them anything but just strengthen those relationships. Right now I am trying to get more involved in my community and just be out where the people are.

@Khristian Guillory I substitute taught all levels of math for about a year and a half because I knew I was going to be relocated via my husband's job. Then I taught middle school math from basic to geometry for gifted students for 3 years in a large urban title 1 school. I loved teaching and I enjoyed my students but it was hard to see so many kids and teachers fall through the cracks due to bureaucracy at all levels. When I relocated again I had to think long and hard whether I would go back to teaching and decided instead of my original plan of teaching and being an agent part-time that I would put both feet firmly in real estate. I still keep in touch with my colleagues and am always willing to lend an ear. To do real estate and to do it well, I think you have to work full time on it. I realize now that I could never have done both at the same time. The only hard part for me right now is keeping the faith that what I am doing is growing my business even if it isn't realized till much later.

Hi there!

I am a real estate agent in DuPont, WA servicing the Puget Sound and surrounding areas. I specialize in education for first time home buyers or sellers. In my spare time, I look for investment properties for myself. I am hoping to meet new people on Bigger Pockets and educate myself as well as be a resource to others. I am one of a select group of agents that participate in a charitable program called Foundation Heroes that donates 5% of my commission to charity and 10% back to community heroes that use my services such as military, first responders, and teachers. Being a former teacher I feel it is the least I can do for those heroes that are often in thankless jobs.